Decision to close Kakuma and Daadab refugee camps painful, says CS Amina Mohamed

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed says Kenya has done its best on the refugee issue.

Lack of international support informed decision to close down Kakuma and Daadab refugee camps, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has said. The CS said although it was painful, there was little Kenya could do.

“Running the department was too costly for the country; some developed countries in the world cannot host even 10,000 refugees, while we at one time gave a home to a million people. This is national resources, tax payer’s money,” said Amina.